six month jail time for no permit

Bob · 2007-08-28T11:19:08+00:00

This was on the Drudge Report on 08/28/07RHE man gets jail time for property fixesBy Megan BagdonasStaff WriterHe built a fence, a retaining wall, a patio and a few concrete columns to decorate his driveway, and now Francisco Linares is going to jail for it.Linares had been given six months to get final permits for the offending structures or remove them as part of a plea agreement reached in January, when he pleaded no contest to five misdemeanor counts of violating the Rolling Hills Estates building code.If he failed to do one or the other, Linares faced six months in county jail.On Monday, Torrance Superior Court Judge Sandra Thompson chastised Linares, a Farmers Insurance district manager, for not completing what he agreed to do in January and then handed him the maximum sentence without possibility of house arrest or probation."Imagine my disappointment to find we are no further along in resolving these issues," Thompson said. "At the rate we're going, we'll still be talking about this at my retirement party."Linares is scheduled to report to county jail Sept. 10."I'm not scared," Linares said about spending time in jail. "It's just very unfair. The city said they wanted to teach me a lesson because they thought I wanted to get away with a lot of stuff."Richard Hamar, Linares' attorney, said he has never heard of anything like this."We're talking about fixing a fence that was on city property," he said. "He didn't build a Las Vegas casino. You put a guy in jail for six months because he repaired the city fence?"The 51-year-old bought the nearly 1-acre property in the 4600 block of Palos Verdes Drive North in 1998. After tearing down an adobe house on the site and building a 3,000-square-foot French-style home, he began landscaping.When Linares asked the city to repair the white three-railed fence behind his house, he was told it was on his property and his responsibility. So he replaced the termite-infested planks. Then the city reversed itself and said Linares...

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TnT 18 years ago

Just further proof that America is NOT a free country. This is a fine example of the communism type government which is affecting all of america these days and is worse in some states such as California. We have all been lied to when they told us that this is a FREE COUNTRY.

Just wait, soon we will all be billed for the air we breathe, and will have to get a permit to take a s*it. Then we will be billed if we exceed using 3 squares of toilet paper for some sort of environmental tax, and our sewerage will be monitored to determine the amount of paper used.

There is more freedom in other countries than there is in the USA.

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Caesar Romano 18 years ago

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 08:28:13 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote Re Re: six month jail time for no permit:

That's not what liberals are about.

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clifto 18 years ago

Can't allow that. Given a choice, people flock to the smoking-permitted establishment to the point where the non-smoking place can't survive. The only way to have non-smoking restaurants is to force them all to disallow smoking.

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Al Bundy 18 years ago

snipped-for-privacy@backpacker.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com:

You are either a troll or an asshole. Actually an asshole either way.

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Jim Redelfs 18 years ago

Thank-you.

My daughter is finishing-up her Pediatrics residency at Baylor/Texas Childrens Hospital. I am looking forward to the trip.

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Moe Jones 18 years ago

HeyBub wrote: . The obvious alternative is to have no rules.

You better not get caught without having a permit pulled for most of the above.

Heck I even have to have a plumber pull a permit if I replace a furnace and I need to have the gas c*ck replaced. I can not do it legally, even when I pull a permit to do the job.

If you get caught in Houston without pulling a permit you can lose your state license.

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